Background
Mr. Mattes was born in Congress Park, Illinois, United States, on November 16, 1910.
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Indians, Infants and Infantry: Andrew and Elizabeth Burt on the Frontier
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803281579/?tag=2022091-20
Platte River Road Narratives
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0252013425/?tag=2022091-20
Jackson Hole, Crossroads of the Western Fur Trade
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1886402000/?tag=2022091-20
The Pony Express: From St. Joseph to Fort Laramie
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0935284664/?tag=2022091-20
Merrill John Mattes
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Merrill Mattes graduated with Master of Arts from the University of Kansas.
Career
After receiving his degree, he accepted a post as park superintendent in 1935, beginning a forty-year career with the National Park Service (NPS). By the end of his tenure with the NPS, Mr. Mattes was the head of Historic Preservation of the United States in Denver, Colorado.
In 1960, Mr. Mattes’s first book, Indians, Infants, and Infantry, was published. Over the years, Merrill Mattes researched thousands of diaries of the travelers on the Oregon Trail. He wrote several books chronicling the Trail’s emergence as the most traveled route to the West in the Nineteenth Century.
Achievements
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Merrill Mattes contributed articles to a number of publications, such publications as Journal of the West, Nebraska History, and Colorado Magazine. In 1969, Mr. Mattes received several honors for his work entitled Great Platte River Road, including awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Western Writers of America.
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